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Date: Thu,  8 Jan 2009 15:45:46 -0800
From: "Roman V. Shaposhnik" <rvs@sun.com>
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Why do we need syspipe() ?
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On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 18:15 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > Although in the alternative universe I can see how implementing #X=20
> > as *channels* capable of 9P messages, could enable things like mounti=
ng
> > them on external hosts and letting these hosts manipulate physical
> > devices attached to yours (I agree that remote mounting of the kernel
> > services, which do not correspond to physical devices, is less useful=
).
> > Just like exporting my *local* /srv can be a useful things at times.
>=20
> you mean like this?
> 	import -E ssl minooka.coraid.com '#=C3=A6' /n/minooka=C3=A6

Well, I tend not to like the proliferation of exportfs', but may
be in this case it is actually better that what I had in mind.

Thanks,
Roman.